Also, you can use BIBM to align, just enable the 2048 alignment in settings, then ensure there is a gap after the last partition (typically will be as cylinder alignment has unused sectors at the end of the drive), if not, resize 1M smaller (you may have to tell it 2M smaller depending on where the alignment is at), then slide (leave existing values) and click okay , then do the same thing working backwards (towards top) if there any more partitions. If you care to align the end, resize after the slide to same size as well. The slide is the operation that will take the longest.

TeraByte Support(PP) wrote:> It's best to convert to MBR before making those types of changes or align> using BING/BIBM.

On my HD0 (the main drive inside the laptop), which is a 750GB, I have a bunch of partitions (BING is set for not limiting).

When I boot to Win7, I have a Boot item that has 4 of those partitions, including a SWAP partition where I put the Win7 pagefile.

I was able to get the SWAP partition aligned by using BING to delete the partition, and to create a partition in the same area. And then I booted into Win7 and used Windows Disk Management to format the drive NTFS. Then the SWAP partition now shows as aligned.

I can't do what I did with the SWAP partition, because I have Windows on the C: partition, and data on the other 2 partitions, but is there a way to use BING to get those other 3 partitions to be aligned? Maybe doing a resize and slide or something like that?

The HD0 is also an AF drive, so I'd like to get all the partitions aligned to 4096? Can I do that with BING?

I was able to get ONE partition on that drive, the SWAP/D: partition to show as aligned, but had to use the Windows 7 format to do that, which was ok, since it wasn't a problem blowing away the SWAP partition.

However, the other 3 partitions, including my C: partition have stuff on them, including Windows on the C; partition, so is there a way to use BING to non-destructively get those 3 partitions aligned?

Then do the first post on this page to align the start of each partition on a 2048 sector boundary. A partition is 2048 sector aligned if you get an integer when you divide the number of sectors preceding the partition by 2048.

A partition is cylinder aligned if you get an integer when you divide the number of sectors preceding the partition by 16065.

Brian K wrote:> Jim,> > In Settings, do you have Align 2048 sectors or Align 2KiB?> > Then do the first post on this page to align the start of each partition on> a 2048 sector boundary. A partition is 2048 sector aligned if you get an> integer when you divide the number of sectors preceding the partition by> 2048.> > A partition is cylinder aligned if you get an integer when you divide the> number of sectors preceding the partition by 16065.

I've done two of the partitions thus far, following those steps, and it looks like it worked thus far. I'm currently doing the C:/Windows partition, but that's taking forever to do the slide, probably because I unchecked the "Data Only" checkbox.

BTW, a couple of things I'm curious about:

1) How did you come up with that (the resize to -5, etc.)? I think I kind of understand what's going on, i.e., the initial resize gives BING some room to adjust the end of the partition when it does the slide?

2) As mentioned, I've been running HDTach, just to get an idea of whether this whole thing is affecting anything. Thus far, after I've aligned each partition, I'm seeing increased average read speed, from about 92MB/s to 97MB/s after aligning the 2nd partition. I'll run HDTach again when the C; partition has been aligned.